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Kelly might be ambushed. We tried to warn him, but our walkie-talkie couldn't pick him up. The Colonel was very worried. He conferred with Captain Bernard Kotin, an artillery observer, about the possibility of hitting the enemy without hitting our own men. "At least we could burn 'em out of that white house if you could land a shell on top there," said the Colonel to Kotin. "Pretty narrow target, though," he added. Kotin decided to try a smoke shell first and gave the range...
...first shell was far to the left of the target. The next bud of smoke was right in back of the white house. Kotin squealed with delight and snapped out his next order: "Fire H.E. [high explosive]. Repeat range. Fire when ready...